A nonsense ballad – the ballad form really lends itself to nonsense verse because its rhythms are so natural and everyone is familiar with them, which gives you loads of scope to play with the sounds of your words … which you have done really well.

I especially enjoyed your second stanza; it’s just the kind of thing the ‘Yes’ campaigners might have been saying before we all voted yesterday.

A wonderful & creative take on Tony’s prompt; your scarecrow does dream of heroics, & yet his inert capacities leave him leagues short of the adventures he seeks; one assumes it is a He; come to think of it, has anyone ever put up a She?